top us straight and figures, including a former prime minister condemning reports that the country's soldiers tortured and mugged and dozens of afghan civilians. we look at how the war on terror created its own a form of terror. also because the french captain makes a rally against a pound on religious gatherings during the long cases, one washing up pointed to disturbing historical parallels in french history. this isn't the 1st time that going to mass has been considered illegal for the churches have been long. going to mass could be considered

a crime. on rescue us from countries including russia, help refugees to a ton of want to care about and rebuild. but many find they have nothing to return to every day we drug buy this house and this is suds, every adult gods in your house that's been destroyed and the family. but isn't this my pen here in the russian capital from everyone here at all teams. h.q. a very warm welcome to the program. good to have you with us. well, one of the things to talk through australian officials have condemned what they call unforgivable atrocities. committed by that country's special forces. in afghanistan, the defense minister, governor general and a former prime minister, spoke out after an inquiry by a strained his military into the alleged murder of $39.00 afghan civilians

including prisoners at the report 2 weeks ago. and it made me physically ill and it was very, very distressing. read the un forgivable atrocities were committed by a small number of individuals and deliberately concealed from the media chains of command. i'm disgusted by the findings of this report will detail in counts of cold blooded murder by members of those messages of remorse following a long list of apologies for war crimes committed by coalition forces in afghanistan since the 2001 invasion into trenker. now looks at how those waging a war on terror became a source of terror themselves. 2 eggs, australia, and afghanistan, thousands of kilometers apart. one, a very keen to help the other. we remind committed to

assisting afghanistan in resisting it. terrorism. resisting the taliban forces providing in cooperation with other countries. i live of stability and to live lives curity as that you'll country can build for itself. a strong and prosperous and secure future. it took the australian prime minister a bit more than 13 hours to fly over to kabul to say all that a bit more than 13 years ago. by then, australian troops had already been engaged in the war torn country for several years, almost 20 years ago since the aussies got involved. their number one military man has no other choice, but to say, sorry, i sincerely and unreservedly apologise for any wrongdoing by a stray in soldiers. i say no choice because allegations of 39 civilian deaths at

the hands of his defense force as a result of blood lust and competition. killing deserve an apology or actually much more than that large parts of the military report. we can't even read their blacked out, but even what's available, sounds horrendous and disgusting. this shameful record includes alleged instances in which new patrol in the members were coerced, to shoot a prisoner in order to achieve that soldier's 1st kewl in an appalling practice known as bloody atrocities. ranged from reports of troops killing a 6 year old child and a house raid to a prisoner being shot dead to save space and a helicopter apology given measures to be taken culprits to be punished. compensation to be paid. but just think of how many times since 2001,

we heard the same kind of stuff from the cole issued to do. you call it what you were just one of the course of the hospital. so president obama spoke by telephone to apologize and express his condolences for the m.s.f. staff and patients who were killed and injured. sincere apologies for any offense. this may have caused by apologies to the president of afghanistan. and we will make sure that anybody who was involved is held fully accountable with the full force of the law. these are the cases that they thought deserved an apology. unlike some unfortunate, i mean quite a few of the fortunate civilian deaths from drone strikes that were often referred to as, remember the phrase collateral damage. but in any case, there is no winning the war on terror without drones, right? they were dangerous. these young men, often deliberately and casually,

cruel. i wanted somehow to save them, send them to school, give them a trade to drain them, of the hate that had been filling their heads. and yet the world that they were a part of and the machinery i commanded, more often had me killing them. instead, it all makes you wonder, just how many more thousands of deaths or command full pause. we're still unaware of, especially when it's revealed how much the people in charge were in denial about what they were doing. the problem is there's a disincentive, really, to tell the truth. we created an incentive to almost require or for people to law. there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue, and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce so well, the latest report that left the aussies red faced lead 20 strategic consequences

and military mindset u. turns well, by how badly trumps plans to cut the troop presence in afghanistan have been received. is just wishful thinking for now. we've been in afghanistan for almost 20 years and no need to ally wants to stay any longer than necessary. but at the same time, the price for leaving too soon, or in uncoordinated way, could be very high afghanistan. risk becoming once again, a platform for international terrorists to plan and organize attacks on our own lands. so i guess it means more apologies could only be on the way sikorsky, former governor of afghanistan's gosney province notes a string is not the only member of the u.s. led coalition to have carried out such horrific actions. these are something that is very serious and we feel that that is beyond our comprehension. and i'm really appalled for that. how could anybody in the name of humanity will,

would even do that, especially with this poor afghan people. and we hope that manifest to something real and not only for the australian, but also other nato countries. and also united states who have committed similar acts in afghanistan, also needs to pay heed to this issue and reconcile their own differences that i have done in afghanistan. the world health organization has voiced a lawnmower for europe such incredible steps right now after $29000.00 fatalities, were right just in a single week. according to the w.h.o., one person in europe is dying from the virus. every 17 seconds. france is one of the was hit with intensive care ward, more than 95 percent full and struggling to cope with more than $2000000.00 covert cases about the continent. wost tali. magical stop of warning. they can no longer

cope like you just do live, will complain about is that we need some rest but we have limited places. the less serious patients are in the hospital ward and we only get the patients in the most serious state. yes, it's difficult now. he said over the government's promise is sort of the comics and over hospital. i've never seen that isn't for the patients. only caregivers francaise bonnell, all religious gatherings, including mass as part of the lockdown has sent, you believe was on to the streets in protest, washed up as one, some things are more important than covert restrictions. a solid cubans can now reports. churches may be closed for services, but catholics are still meeting for prayers and they are protesting, knock down measures that seem religious services essential

under france's measures to fight the virus. only funerals and weddings are currently allowed in religious buildings or services with limits on the numbers that turned religious leaders say the restrictions. contrary to see could part of the catholic faith, catholics in france, suffer from not being able to come together for the sunshine moment. the sunday mass, many do not understand how disposable to shop in the supermarket filled with bias and how to split the same time to meet in our churches in strict compliance with health precaution. despite taking their pleas to france's highest administrative court, the catholic church has failed to persuade the current sleep state that religious services such as mers are essential,

and should be permitted during the lockdown that some while others have decided to take matters into their own hands. well, if i might go to confession with you a bit, charlotte, i did not start going to master in the 1st lockdown, and i don't intend to start doing that this time, keeping not to drop focus from the authorities for attending these prohibited masses. we have agreed to hide his identity. do you feel that that is the responsible thing to do to continue going to mass responsible thing to do for us as catholics, we are mostly responsible to god before we are responsible to our government. and obviously it's always best when those 2 are together. but in french history, this isn't the 1st time that going to mass has been considered illegal, or the churches have been locked, or that going to mass could be considered crimes by making this decision. do you

not think that you're putting needs above the general population and do you think that as a catholic is the right thing to do? you know, because i'm not asking anybody to do anything that they don't want to do. if someone doesn't want to go to mass, they're not being forced to go. and as they say, oh, be all of the laws as my religion asks me to on public transportation, etc. so i will be a paying the front. so i know because the laws of france do not extend above god. so there are limits to france's power. and i simply recognize that in the practical order, max is not repentant for his desire to continue attending mass. nor would he feel morally responsible if someone in his congregation caught and delegate nowhere in my life up to 2020 have been held morally responsible for being a vector of a disease. i could very well have passed

a cold on to someone in the past or the flu, unknowingly. and the way that code has operated with many, many asymptomatic carriers. it's very unlikely that anyone would ever know. so given that i had no intention to distribute the virus or any desire to do so, i couldn't feel bad in that sense. that attitude is likely to in theory your forty's, which one services such as this all banned well for the protests by catholics will not be tolerated. life is more important than anything else. and life is about battling the coronavirus. it's not just catholics who have been impacted by this. the blanket ban hates any religious service. that means that muslims, jews, hindus and others are all in the same boat. but given that france is still a majority catholic country, their voices and voices of anger,, or roy sing above the crowds, shawty brewski, r.t.,

paris. the european union has failed to agree on a coronavirus recovery fund on a 7 year budget. and during a tense video conference, thursday summit exposed a deepening rift between member states on issues ranging from migration to the rule of law, p. to all of our reports, migration the budget for the upcoming 7 years. they are the 2 main problems for the european union at the moment. there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel and getting agreement on either of them. on the line, the e.u. commission president said ahead of the summit on thursday that there needs to be an overhaul of the way that migration is dealt with in the e.u. at. that's been pretty much evident since at least the heights of the migrant crisis back in 2015. the way it currently works is that in 1st nation, the 1st member state, somebody seeking asylum arrives in, that's the one that is obligated to look after them or see that's not particularly

fair on countries like greece or italy on the line says the current system is not fit for purpose and needs to be overhauled in favor of something. farah, the current system no longer works. each member state without exception, must support member states under pressure. the idea of more burden sharing isn't agreed on by poland and hungary. they say no, they don't want lots of poland, hungary also not on side when it comes to the conditions of the e.u. budget for the next 7 years. now poland has found itself accused by brussels, of having undermined the independence of the g d surety, as well as having a row did some of the checks and balances of democracy while in hungary those fingers pointed at them, saying that in particular the, the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, saying that he's launched a crackdown against free media and academics under some of the clauses that are

written into the new budget. if you don't play by brussels rules, you don't get brussels as money and that isn't sitting too well with either warsaw or budapest to feel it may be targeted. it pretty much is targeted directly at them, but they aren't alone in not being happy with this move. but i've also known notion of propaganda clubs merged in the european union, deciding what the rule of law is and how it's broken from communist times. we know well how such clubs used. we reject such tools because the rule of law is now being applied in the e.u. as a scare tactic. the opposite is true, meaning the rule of law should mean the right of states to reform themselves in accordance with treaties and the constitution. numerous media outlets and some political groups in the european parliament are openly threatening to use the instrument wrong, would term the rule of law in order to discipline individual human, but states those of us who spent part of our lives under total terror in regime no

. the deviation from reality begins when process is institutions. so given the name that reflects the exact opposite of the essence, it's no small change that poland and hungary are holding up though we're talking about 1.8 trillion euros, the budget for the next 7 years. that's the cash that supposed to launch the covert 19 recovery plan to build back better. also, the green initiatives on digital economy projects that were put forward as the big marquee goals. this slip on the line and her commission set out for their time in office. it doesn't look like it's going to go through any time soon. the deadlock is well pretty much locked as it stands as a lot of work going to have to be done if the new budget is going to be approved. and if there's to be any breakthrough when it comes to the future of migration policy in the e.u. . well, let's bring in our power to plan a teen is

a professor of european history at and somebody university. welcome to the program . at 1st, we know that poland and hungary vetoed the e.u. budget, largely over the rule of law clause. and they said it's an unfair ideological battle. and do you think that that's fat and do you see a way out of the status of well, i think they are like i think in maui i think the european union,, the same object english as a soul to the coming to power with these i.d.l., the rule of law, actually, what do they mean? because i don't see them is not a sense, a lot of faith. and then as they should not be pulled, they fall is their full getting eyeballs of the all the principle of figurative so go. those causes the absence overrule the low, which has been allegedly made by people like o.c. fusion and so on. and so you do in your new no, hasn't any constitution on this. thank god for it. so they should not be full

policies against states. like congo we and the poem, by the way, if you think about a bump on the way out of the reasons that we align that feel more than the little one as it was the european union. because if you remember he so you call them assumes the source because also will last them back in the 18th century and would not exist. and there was a polish, they actually in the 19th century, but was there was no polish free. so i think for the european union and he was acting alone. those are the lines he's actually would be king of sama sama, the old idea. that knowledge then don't exist in a full on and impartially views applies also to ongoing. so we have actually, we are facing a major, major confrontation between the west and the size of the cheese, the most powerful side of the european union, and includes only the siding groups,

only france and germany, and the rest, the, all of the european union and the collapse of the european union in the ether. so therefore, mccomas companies which are trying to create reality and morally do a lot and free environment out of the case of i want to say you were talking about the free and 5. and one thing that is quite controversial is of course, the freedom of movement, specifically the wave of migrants that's been coming in study since 2016. now us, you have on demand says the european migration policy has failed. what do you think needs to change for everyone to feel happy? well, i think what they should believe the single phase 2 actors who wore the migration and the shooters stock put, apply to legal aid to prolong, on the over the coming that we don't know planning this is the main jewel manger

will remain the main job a problem with the european union is very difficult to plan economy and this tumor is difficult to land the future on my glacier. we don't know how many people are going to trying to retreat. we don't know what is going to happen in the future. so it's very we don't know we can really plan about the great action what we know immediately we have got to this situation now that we are locked. locking side, toma, we cannot move some areas of lethally. thank god, i am a mole and a sonar which is not controlling it is legal. some people are in my in lumber, the lockets oma, and we see a lot of migrant flooding and moving freely in southern italy with these bonded situation. read through the european union shoes. i'll pass to stop migration all that time. the size of thomas lease. what we have to do,

we migrants to the boss of the migrants, and we cheat on the most of the migrants reaches greece by way of the sea. and is really very difficult now, and we are very uncomfortable with the situation we meet on the line now because we are stuck in a major economic crisis coming from the policies used to go with the talking there about the economic aspect of it. the budget would have included a large scale post anti mic relief package if they sponsor all without the deadlock doesn't break. and what other options, i mean, all that. and what could that impact be for europe's recovery? well, we'll be 1st in the major league that there's more so because the need for the a lot of people will rely on the coming from, from the you, from the cosmos, on the 2 equally and to march, maybe because they were all too much in the mouth that go there and all the state of the european union would have been willing to give them money. but you can't be

so confident because they didn't respond to reality. is that different economies, the european union is very uneven. and so to back down and, you know, the european union has the power veto the poles. the story is something that so many powerful and it's too many was a thanks to the power because not all made of the cheese. i think taken all over europe. you know, it's still here in the pond and i'm in the older one, empire, and so on and the clock still. if you give me 3 grand to take the pole beat, which is something the more graphic is that really good is that, you know, you can only all sort of bossa. this is so much so huge amounts of money and $1.00 from the 3 on you was, would be so easy to use and die over to those constantly be still willing to give. so what we might, we would be a situation similar to the united kingdom. so those faces might be willing in the

future to leave law to opt not to leave the european union. because it is my understanding. i'm finding i want to ask you, there are actually some calls in brussels to just drop this unanimity requirement and go ahead with the budget despite the poland and hungary and veto. what would that mean for the future of the new? why do you come up with game where you have the good news to be? i'm pretty sure it's not. who are you to be just who are going to read a poem, us who after all, why those who, why? which is history, whose words we've the root hold with my view, why? who is what that

was such me. it's so often difficult just to agree with in a family i can't imagine how difficult it is for all of these countries within one block with so many different interests to agree on anything new will be following that was piled up on a teeny a professor of european history at an sabrina foster. thank you so much for giving your insight. we are finally, russian peacekeepers in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region have now taken up all positions agreement. at this moment on to a peace deal. the defense minister made that announcement on friday. meanwhile, azerbaijani soldiers accompanied by the peacekeepers, are now entering parts of the contested region, seated by armenian forces. now the russians broke a truce, saudia this month, put an end to 7 weeks of deadly fighting in the contested mountainous region under the thames. both on us by john will hold on to that recent gains, meaning that large swathes of new. what i care about how full an sairy control,

including the city of shame on media, also has to handover 3 of the districts to the loss of those areas. has prompted many army and residents to flee along in this, and some towns that houses the federal financing, a surprise, johnnies move, and meanwhile, other armenians are going frank to go on a caravan main city, just upon a cut which remains under that control. but i thought is why i got to found out many of the refugees simply have nothing to report and the war may be over. but the humanitarian situation here, instapundit here is still dial scenes like this are repeated hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times across the city and left to their own devices. look, emergency workers would be overwhelmed. this is why russia has sent help aside from peacekeepers who patrol the routes and heights. russia also said civilian rescue

has engineers fallen builders to gauge the devastation and their state made how much aid will be required. it's neither easy nor quick. let's go for the next one. how many do you have on your list? oh, there are too many. how many have we visited today? about 50, neither is it pleasant. every creator has a story. every destroyed whom has its goofs and with almost every visit, we hear again and again about how he were a she were all of them died. they were in this room 2 cousins. and my grandmother, i was in the room over there, which wasn't destroyed. i fell off my bed, opened my eyes, and i only saw dust. it's at me 5 minutes to crawl out the window. help has come from all over the world, humanitarian organizations,

luko and russian rescuers catalogue ruin. after wreckage, our 1st task is to cover all the broken windows and glass, so people can survive the winter. it's some pleasant even scary. i had some role in the construction of many of these buildings is painful for the priority now is making carol livable again, wreckage will be cleared later, but light damage has to be repaired. now people are doing what they can, plastering, move a small holes and covering empty window frames with plastic sheets, but they're alive and even for that. my house wasn't hit so bad. they've lost way for live, blew their windows song out, but there are who miss, which suffered much worse. really can't complain. the city is slowly coming back to life. the shock of the war ease wearing off and with every returning refugees.

there is a sense that the city of state by the character has come back from the dead. but in every street there is a somber reminder that life will never be the same. and some people just can't come back. every day we drive by this house and it's a sad sight, every time a dog guarding a house that's been destroyed and a family that isn't there more, i guess d. of tea from the garden. a car, a bot. that's all from me for the moment up next on our team. it's one of our war winning documentary. so enjoy that. thanks for sticking with us on, have a great day for

greater, transferred to say simpson, exacerbating an alarming everyone mindlessly managed to actually what that means. is we end up making solutions that cost along, but actually do very little. it's just a kind of fuel instead of the actual solutions that were tricks, global diary room listen. we're going to go out there to settle fridays off for business because friday's big news really get good today. it is a difficult close with my father and what they call a friend.